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Let’s teach doubt and skepticism about science

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Praj / 1 Comment

Lawrence Krauss wants schools to cultivate doubt: Doubt about one’s most cherished beliefs is, of course, central to science: the physicist Richard Feynman stre...

Education/Values

‘Scientific thinking’ as a barrier to diversity in science

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Praj / 11 Comments

  A couple months ago my friend Kenny Gibbs wrote a great post about diversity and science for Scientific American. I want to reflect on this sentence (emphasis...

Evidence/Values

Useful is better than true

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

To reflect a bit more on astrology…I wonder why exactly my mother should embrace modern cosmology and reject Hindu astrology. Would it make even the sligh...

Evidence/Values

Astrology does work for some people

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Praj / 3 Comments

As I return from a long blogging break, I thought I’d briefly turn away from creationism and instead discuss astrology. I was inspired by Phil Plait’...

Evidence/Values

Your science is not important

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Praj / 9 Comments

  In a talk titled ‘Your Religion is not Important’, the Dalai Lama once said: I am not interested, my friend, about your religion or if you are rel...

Values

Pluralism, Christians, and moral discourse

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

In a thoughtful essay on religious freedom, pluralism and LGBT rights, John Inazu asks a lot of non-Christians: Pluralism does not entail relativism. Living wel...

Evidence/Values

Why creationists need to come out of the closet

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

Andrew Sullivan has been running a few posts on ‘Why Atheists Need to Come Out.’ Here’s my whimsical reformulation of a recent item in the thr...

Values

Spreading the gospel of evolution

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

Adam Laats writes a fascinating sentence in his review of Adam Shapiro’s book on the Scopes Trial: Textbook authors, Shapiro writes, tended to work collab...

Values

Junkies don’t come clean after learning evolution

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Praj / 9 Comments

Last summer as my wife and I left Pike’s Peak, we met two men hitching a ride down the mountain after hiking up it. On the drive we learned that one of th...

Values

Creationists and unity, cont.

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

In addition to Victor’s thoughtful comment, I recommend Derek Rishmawy on writing off fundamentalists (emphasis added): And yet, I can’t help but note thi...

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